Today Lila & I went shopping with Amanda because............she has taken another apartment (3 in total now) & is expanding again. We were looking for material today for curtains, doona covers etc. Tomorrow we will organise the paint, buy the material, get curtains made & the list goes on. There are a bunch of Amanda's friends coming for a few days at the end of the week to help get the apartment ready. I am only sorry that I am leaving on Monday as I would love to go to the Orphanage to get the new babies (about 7 or 8 I think) & I don't imagine everything will be ready by then - the main problem really being finding more nannies.
We have also gone to several markets looking for second hand furniture that we can fix up. We are such a novelty there - 3 foreign women in a part of China most people don't get to see. They are all very surprised to see us & even more surprised when Amanda starts speaking to them in Chinese about the price of things. You see, there is one price for the Chinese & one price for foreigners but Amanda knows how to handle them. Eleven years in China & you learn lots of new & interesting skills.
Anyway the photo of Lila was taken in a place selling lots of furniture, Jade & Terracotta Warriors. We weren't looking to buy here, we just got a bit distracted (long story & not really news worthy). The one of me is at the market buying some new aprons for the nannies & I was the model. Maybe that could be my new career?
Actually, maybe not.
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